Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace
A film director doesn't know the ins and outs of the cutting room, post production, makeup, lighting & special FX, but will still happily take the credit for the direction. And rightly so.
Direction is not cinematography, is not editing, is not CGI etc. I think most people appreciate this, and by and large people get appropriately credited on films.

Unfortunately there's a lot more mystique in music production, and so it's much easier for due credit to get handed out inappropriately. It's the same kind of mentality that allows the Britneys of this world to masquerade as "artistes" when in fact they're little more than glorified session singers.

I guess at the end of the day everybody knows exactly how much time / effort they've put into whatever they claim to have done, and they have to live with it. I know I wouldn't be happy if I'd been credited with a load of stuff that I knew in my heart of hearts was someone else's work.